About

Why this site

When you are preparing for an interview, a pay rise request or a career change, you want a simple answer: how much do people who do my job, with my experience, in my city, earn? The pages that answer this today often show tables that look modelled: the same gap applied to every city, amounts that change from one page to another on the same site, no indication of volume or source.

The most accurate answer starts with you: your CV. Negotiate Your Salary values your CV from the CV itself, suggests ways to improve it and raise its value, and tells you what to fix so that it gets past recruiters' screening software (ATS). The AI reads and rewrites; the amounts come from salaries actually paid, published by INSEE (France's national statistics office), and the score is calculated by the site using public criteria.

For the salary pages, Negotiate Your Salary takes a different approach: salaries observed in real job offers, normalised with public rules, and for every figure the number of offers, the period, the update date and the source. When there is not enough data, we say so and move up one geographical level instead of making things up.

What you will find here

• What am I worth?: your market value, your score against ATS robots, word-for-word fixes and your AI-improved CV, as a PDF and a Word file.
• Career change: your CV reworded for the job you are aiming for, and what you could earn there, today and in ten years.
• The average salary for every occupation, according to INSEE.
• A page for each job and place: median, range, estimated net pay, breakdown by required experience, comparison between cities, trend.
• “And you?”: see where your salary sits in the distribution, in your browser, without sending anything.
• An anonymous contribution in 30 seconds, which feeds a separate series of “reported salaries” and unlocks the detailed breakdowns on the pages.
• An answer generator for “what are your salary expectations?”, based on the figures for your job.

The rules we set ourselves

• No figure shown comes from a language model: the model writes, the code calculates.
• No made-up data: below 30 offers, we say so and move up one level.
• Nothing made up in your CV: a missing figure becomes “[X]”, for you to fill in.
• Account optional, CV file never kept without your consent (encrypted if you keep it in your account), no IP address stored in plain text.
• A public method, explained in detail in the methodology.

Who is behind it

The site is published by Mathieu Altavilla. It is not affiliated with France Travail (the French public employment service) or with any recruitment firm; the job offers are reused under the France Travail licence. Contact details are in the legal notice.